Based on a story by Stephen King (“Secret Window, Secret Garden,” from Nightmares & Dreamscapes), Secret Window is about such interesting themes as plagiarism, guilt, love, infidelity … and mental issues. Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp) is an author about to go through a divorce from his wife Amy (Maria Bello, from The Cooler). While Amy has the couple’s main house, Mort’s in their cabin in the woods, working on his next novel. A strange man named John Shooter (John Tuturro) shows up on Mort’s doorstep, claiming Mort stole a story of his – and wanting Mort to set things right.
What starts out as a terrorizing thriller slowly transforms into something a bit more twisted, even a bit more sinister. Mort insists to Shooter that his story is older and that he can prove it – he just needs to find the issue of Ellery Queen magazine. Shooter agrees to give him some time, but we know better. We know Shooter’s not going to just roll over if he ever sees the magazine.
Added to the chaos in Mort’s life is his pending divorce from Amy. The ten-year marriage finally ended when Mort discovered Amy and her new beau Ted (Timothy Hutton) in bed at a cheap motel, an incident that’s played back for us a few times.
To say any more might be giving away too much, but this is certainly not a run-of-the-mill thriller. If you still need a reason to believe that Johnny Depp can really act, please watch this movie and be forever charmed. Depp is magnificent, and it’s easy to see that a lesser actor would have floundered in the role. The rest of the cast is basically background noise, but Bello in particular turned in a magnificent performance. But it’s all about Mort, how he perceives things, how he reacts to things.
Secret Window:***1/2
secret window is a great movie! It is a movie full of sespence, mistery and makes your nerves tremble. I love the storyline and the movie and diologe makes it even easyer to understand ( which I like in a movie). A scary movie isn’t usually funny but this one is, that is what make it even better than all horror movies out their. I am also a Johnny Depp fan and love all of his movies but this one is the best out of all his movies, and recomened it to all of his fans out their in this world. I also recomened this to not just Jonny Depp fans but to anyone out their looking for a great movie to watch but can’t find one out their. This movie also has great effects and actions so that is what makes it even better. Watch it don’t worry you like it!
I’m glad you agree. I liked it a lot more than real critics out there did. It was even better than – or at least as good as – the Stephen King novella on which it’s based.
Thank you Anonymous and you know what you are right!
I thought I was logged in – that Anonymous was me.
what the movie is rated 1/2 it should be rated 1000 000 000.
It’s rated three and a half stars out of four (***1/2).
oh sorry frothy i must not have seen that. that rating is pretty good.